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	Harti Brandt <harti@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: TCP bug?
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Andre Oppermann wrote:
> ...
> 2) in old T/TCP (RFC1644) which we supported in our TCP code the SYN/FIN
>    combination was a valid one, though not directly intended for 
> SYN/ACK/FIN.

T/TCP has been superseded by SCTP, and should be completely deprecated 
in the stack, IMHO.

I believe this has been done, this could well be a corner case exposed 
by incomplete removal of T/TCP support.

thanks
BMS